Your response to my post does not make sense.
These were/are centralized bitcoin security exchanges:
glbse
btct.co
bitfunder
I was talking about centralized exchanges.
It doesn't make sense to you because you've decided that three horribly managed play-pretend operations were actual exchanges.
They weren't.
The government has nothing to do with it.
The problem isn't centralization. The problem is idiots, and that problem will follow you anywhere so long as you've got idiots involved. There's ample proof in my anthology link, if somehow your independent experience has failed to reveal to you this very basic fact of life.